Motion
- Motion title
- Detention of Ahmad Qatamesh by Israeli security forces
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2011
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- B27
- Motion text
Congress notes with dismay that:
Palestinian academic and writer Ahmad Qatamesh was arrested by Israeli security forces on 21 April from his brother's home in Ramallah
Qatamesh's wife, her daughter, her sister and her young niece were held as hostages in their home until Qatamesh was arrested
Qatamesh is now being held as an administrative detainee, allowing him to be detained indefinitely without charge.
Congress expresses its condemnation of this fundamental breach of human rights, instructs the General Secretary to raise the matter urgently with the FCO and the Israeli Embassy, and agrees to circulate the Amnesty appeal for Dr Qatamesh to all members, urging them to write to MPs and the Israeli embassy calling for Qatamesh to be either released or charged and given a fair trial.
Congress further instructs the General Secretary to call on the Israeli authorities to end the use of administrative detention.
- Proposing body
- National executive committee (NEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/C/05-29/121/B27